[arch-general] No Compiz with current Kernels - but compiz with Linux alchemy 2.6.32-lts OK - Huh?

[Peter Lewis]

On Monday 12 Jul 2010 at 05:12 David C. Rankin wrote:
> > On my box I continue to have problems with the current kernels on,
> > booting lts works fine with compiz - how is that so? IIRC - lts used to
> > be cli only, now it boots into runlevel 5 just fine.
> > 
> > Any thoughts on why compiz won't run on 2.6.34-2 or 2.6.34.1-1?
>
> Here is a bit more information:
> 
> I don't do anything different when booting or starting Arch with any of
> the kernels or the radeon driver. I am totally confused why compiz works
> great with LTS, but white-screens with the current kernel. For both
> kernels, I don't use an xorg.conf and the modules loaded look the same:
> 

I don't know if this is caused by the same thing, but there's something 
similar happening with the intel driver too. Look here for a discussion:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=99488&p=2

Pete.